What do you do?

[Ascension]

I have been in management in the food processing industry for the past 10 yrs. I am consulting now in that industry & earlier this year I was in Russia consulting with a Russian company in Kaliningrad. Pics below: 1. inside a Russian sub that was docked in a channel in downtown Kaliningrad...escorted by my lovely interpreter Nataly. 2. Red Square w/Cathedral of St. Basil in background. 3. a pic this week of what I prefer to do.

 

[rockyracoon]

I work for the Geneva Park District and am the Site Coordinator for a before/after school program at an elementary school. We've got about 60 kids at our site and I do all the programming, budgeting, staffing, etc. On the good days, I basically get to play shit like dodgeball, kickball, basketball, or various arts/crafts all day. On bad days I get to deal with missing kids, mildly-severely injured kids, asshole kids, fucking bizarre kids, etc. Also, the school I work at caters to probably the wealthiest part of an already disgustingly upper-class town. I only mention this because dealing with shitbag parents is one thing, but give em a Beamer, a $1,000,000 house and a overinflated self-worth and what you get is pretentious, snobby, overprotective, assholes who give you nothing but attitude about disciplining their "do no wrong" kids.

 

[EyeballKid]

I'm a film student at Columbia College, and I film some stuff in my spare time as well as write assloads of scripts on a constant basis.

I work as a bookseller/musicseller at Barnes and Noble and have been there almost 4 years.

I also work at software tech company, taking support calls. It's pretty much the most dull that dull can be.

Oh yeah, sometimes I get paid (or not) to play my music out and about. So it's a very small, for fun, side job as well.

Phew.

 

[J-Dubya 777]

I only mention this because dealing with shitbag parents is one thing, but give em a Beamer, a $1,000,000 house and a overinflated self-worth and what you get is pretentious, snobby, overprotective, assholes who give you nothing but attitude about disciplining their "do no wrong" kids.

Keep giving them a reality check! :Smokedev:
Sounds like a slightly more rich version of Spring Grove, up in my neck of the woods. I hear all kinds of stories from a good friend of mine who has to deal with his kids, and the shitbag parents & their kids.

No way...You fish?? Mostly bass, or are you a multi-species kind of dude? That rocks nads! I SO miss having the time to fish.... I'll have to dig out a pic of me when I was fat & rich with my musky from 2000.....
I do everything from Musky to Walleye to Bass, and just about everything else in between.....Very cool!

 

[Ascension]

J-Dub...fishing keeps me sane...that plus running my bassboat at over 80mph lol. Yeah...mostly bass...but l get into some crappie, stripers, & hybrids every now & then. l've never caught a musky...wouldn't mind latching into one of those. Kinda like catching a decent striper l would think...hook it & hang the fuck on!

 

[Marwen]

I currently am a university English student. I've had a few jobs to financially support myself. Now I'm doing some part-time freelancing (translation) which I'll keep doing until I get my next job.
I play guitars and make music as a hobby. I'm into film/game scoring with which I hope to go professional someday. I've already been scoring for a crappy low budget video game that is still under development.

 

[clover]

I am a school services officer (what used to be called a teachers aide way back when) at one of the worst-reputationed schools in Australia, and I love it. I mainly work with the kids who have behaviour problems and/or learning difficulties in Tech Studies and English. Occasionally I'll do some admin work, but I try to avoid that like the plague.

 

[J-Dubya 777]

J-Dub...fishing keeps me sane...that plus running my bassboat at over 80mph lol. Yeah...mostly bass...but l get into some crappie, stripers, & hybrids every now & then. l've never caught a musky...wouldn't mind latching into one of those. Kinda like catching a decent striper l would think...hook it & hang the fuck on!

I was more sane when I went fishing every other weekend.....
I wanted to do the hybrid/striper shot at a couple nuke cooling lakes in IL, but never could make the trek or the time. Musky are like BIG pike, with a much nastier disposition The one in the pic below was 42" at approx. 20lbs. I'm 99.9% catch & release, I only keep a couple walleye for dinner, when they are around. We were fishing the smallmouth bite (basically ANY wood in the water was holding 2-3 lb fish), when I caught a 20" hammer handle musky, which popped my musky cherry after MANY years of trying. I threw a shallow diving rapala shad rap on the very next cast back into the bay as we were leaving to hit a different spot when he/she hit. Went straight down and to the river channel. Only about a 15 minute fight, but a 30 minute revive/release. Kudos to my friend and his net skills! Back at the lodge (Chippewa Flowage in NW WI) since we were technically bass fishing, we were unjustly labeled as the bass guys who happened upon a musky...
My MANY hours of trying to hook one of these beasts meant NOTHING to the hard core musky hunters....bastards!

 

[Marwen]

Killer catch J-Dub!
I used to fish too. Great times. Heh, wish I had the time and mind-emptiness to get back into fishing.

 

[Meedleyx10]

I've never been too into fishing...but every couple summers or so when the whole family gets together my Grandpa, Uncles, Dad, and myself usually go deep-sea fishing out of Oregon Inlet in the Outer Banks. I used to go bow-fishing with people a lot back in Montana too. Both are always a geat time.

 

[noble savage]

My Grandpa and I used to go flounder fishing on this big boat in Rhode Island. On one of the trips, I caught the 3rd largest flounder ever caught in that state. I still have the magazine article they did somewhere, too. I had to have a bunch of people help me reel it in. Pretty cool.

 

[ABQShredHead]

They recently stocked Bluewater Lake here in NM with Muskie. Seems what was once a trout lake somehow became overrun with goldfish. It was so bad that flying over the lake in a plane the water was goldish red rather than blue. The goldfish were suffocating the trout; so, they dumped in some muskie fingerlings to eat the goldfish. For the past two or three years, they've allowed fishing for the muskie.

We have a pike lake up north at Springer Lake (state record 36 lbs, 53"), and some of the pike apparently swam down the Rio Grande to Cochiti Lake as well. My brother caught three pike one day - like the first day ever that I didn't go with him. He was just screwing around playing with the crappie when all of a sudden his reel backlashed. haha. He tells some funny stories about that incident. Like, when he finally landed the first one, he was trying to figure out how to get the hook out. The thing opened its mouth at him and my brother said he "threw him up in the air and went up the mountain to get the hatchet from his truck". haha

NM also has a killer striper lake - Elephant Butte. You can hit them around the dirt dam around mid summer, or up in the Narrows during spawning season. The state record was pulled out of there at 54 lbs 8 oz and 45".

For bass, Elephant Butte is good as well, but there's a small lake in the SW corner of the state in the Pecos Wilderness where they introduced Okeechobee large mouths back in the mid-80's. The state record largemouth came out of that lake at 15 lbs 13 oz and 26½ lbs.

NM is a very diverse state, with huge variance in elevations. As such, we have pretty much every species of freshwater fish around. Even frickin' gar! You can see a cool li'l sampling here. Can you imagine a 31-lb rainbow on your line?

 

[Iced Dog]

Your interpreter reminds me a bit of Anna Paquin

a couple nuke cooling lakes

Did you catch Blinky the three-eyed fish?

 

[Kenneth R.]

I suck at fishing.

This thread is very interesting so far

 

[Ultimate_Symphony]

I'm chef at a restaurant and currently do caterings whenever I got the time. I'm also doing my BA in hotel and restaurant administration.

 

[wild bill guarnere]

Cool thread! Lots of musicians, I see.

I'm a highly decorated, 86 year old, one-legged world war 2 vet! Just kidding.

I'm a Unix systems administrator for a mid-sized regional bank. I build and maintain Solaris, AIX and Linux systems for the bank. I actually like my job and think it's a lot of fun. When I'm not at work, I can be found in the gym, or driving my kids all over God's green earth, while (thankfully) listening to my favorite music. Buying a car with a good sounding stereo turned out to be a wise decision, because it seems like I spend half my life there.

The funny thing is, my two oldest daughters actually like my music. Their favorite band, and mine, is Iron Maiden. I took them on a road trip to see Maiden near Cleveland this past summer, and we had a great time. And it was through my oldest daughter's boyfriend that I got introduced to Symphony X, so I guess it works both way!

 

[J-Dubya 777]

Cool thread! Lots of musicians, I see.


I'm a Unix systems administrator for a mid-sized regional bank. I build and maintain Solaris, AIX and Linux systems for the bank. !

Sigh, I miss my HP-UX Admin & OpenVMS System Manger days, along with the paychecks that went with it.....

 

[J-Dubya 777]

Killer catch J-Dub!
I used to fish too. Great times. Heh, wish I had the time and mind-emptiness to get back into fishing.

Thanks, The mind emptiness is all what you put into it.
I've spent many days doing the laid back fishing/drinking/partying thing, but at imy fishing peak, it was like having a tournement with myself. No matter how hard you fish, it's ALWAYS fun!

 

[HackerX]

Hmmm, I am a System's Analyst. Which is just a fancy way of saying I'm a programmer.

 

[schenkadere]

I manage a digital prepress department for a major folding carton printer...mostly cosmetics, some medical. We do all the preparation for plating, including design, layout, color, retouching and of course plate production to keep the presses running. I also handle the department IT. Been in the business nearly 20 years...been in management since I was 26...I'm 42 now. I enjoy my job and it keeps the kids fed.